Photo courtesy of Associated PressStephen Strasburg, the No. 1 pick in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft, will not be pitching against the PawSox.

Sorry, New England.

Nationals prospect Stephen Strasburg, the top-rated prospect in baseball according to Baseball America, will not pitch against the PawSox as originally planned.

Strasburg was originally scheduled to start Monday for the Syracuse Chiefs against the Pawtucket Red Sox at McCoy Stadium at 12:05 p.m. But the Nationals have decided to push his start back one day to give him an extra day of rest, according to Boston.com.

"The 21-year-old righthander had been scheduled to start for Syracuse in Pawtucket on Monday afternoon at 12:05 p.m. But the Nationals decided today to give Strasburg an extra day of rest and he will start Tuesday at Rochester.

Strasburg has made a mockery of the minors. In seven AA and AAA starts, he has allowed four earned runs on 14 hits over 34 innings and struck out 40. He threw six no-hit innings for Syracuse on Wednesday night. He dials it to to 100 without breaking a sweat and had a breaking pitch that one scout told me, 'is unfair.'"